Edward Hopper – Blue Night – 1914
Troubled Waters
Edward Hopper – Queensborough-Bridge – 1913
Home
Edward Hopper – American Village – 1912
Room
Edward Hopper – Summer Interior – 1909
Morn
Edward Hopper – Bistro – 1909
Passing
Edward Hopper – Railroad Train – 1908
Edward Hopper Week at TechnoChitlins
Wikipedia:
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for hisoil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.[1]
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In his early self-portraits, Hopper tended to represent himself as skinny, ungraceful, and homely. Though a tall and quiet teenager, his prankish sense of humor found outlet in his art, sometimes in depictions of immigrants or of women dominating men in comic situations. Later in life, he mostly depicted women as the figures in his paintings.[12] In high school, he dreamed of being a naval architect, but after graduation he declared his intention to follow an art career. Hopper’s parents insisted that he study commercial art to have a reliable means of income.[13] In developing his self-image and individualistic philosophy of life, Hopper was influenced by the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He later said, “I admire him greatly…I read him over and over again.”[14]
Through him, a glimpse of a doomed America from the pre-Great War times to the cynical 20’s…
Stylish Cocks
Pea-cock
Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800)
Weep for Me
Itō Jakuchū – Willow Tree and Mandarin Ducks in the Snow
Night
Itō Jakuchū – (伊藤若冲 Japanese, 1716-1800) White Plum Blossoms in Moonlight 月夜白梅図
Worthies
Itō Jakuchū – Five hundred arhats
MY tree
Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800)
Today in History at TechnoChitlins
At 9:30 in the morning on this day in 1903, Henry Ford and other prospective stockholders in the Ford Motor Company meet in Detroit to sign the official paperwork required to create a new corporation.
The penultimate result, so far, is this-
Yum. But I have to settle for my clapped-out F-150. One can dream, though…